TxDOT plan to widen a section of the Grand Parkway get public debut this week
that allowed for the state to borrow money and build the tollway outline that widenings are required when traffic congestion reaches certain thresholds. While the tollway has not reached that level, yet, it is closing in on it, TxDOT officials said, meaning they must start planning for the third lane in each direction.
Use of the tollway — now running more than 100 miles around the region — peaked last October, according to the latest activity reported by TxDOT. That month, the tollway logged nearly 22 million transactions, marking every time a single vehicle passed beneath a tolling point. As a result, the road is collecting 19 percent more in tolls than officials budgeted for the fiscal year, raking in $72.7 million from September to November alone.
A fight has erupted over where to put a Grand Parkway intersection. Millions of dollars are at stake. To the north of that, work is expected to start by 2026 to widen the segment from Interstate 10 to U.S. 290 in western Harris County, where commercial growth along the tollway and residential development to the west has surged demand not only on the Grand Parkway, but intersecting farm-to-market roads, such as FM 529.the next new segments of the tollway into Brazoria County from I-45 to Texas 288
. That portion, in and around Alvin, have accelerated in recent months as officials in Brazoria County and state lawmakers have made the segment a priority to relieve what they say is growing traffic demand, which will be made worse by planned developments south of Pearland.
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